It’s a little daunting with how big podcasts have gotten; not only has many a celebrity jumped on the podcast-bandwagon – and of course, surprise surprise, Romesh Ranganathan couldn’t be satisfied with just the one, currently sporting two – but the very average Joe and Josephine can just set one up in the comfort of their very home too and talk absolutely nonsense to nearly tens of folk.

Although this film isn’t a social political comment on the current podcast landscape per se, it does use the medium as the crux of its content.

In the middle of the night, due to the different time zones, Evy (Nina Kiri) sets up her laptop and gets a call from her buddy Justin (Adam DiMarco), to record their podcast together. It may well be an antisocial time, but it kind of suits Evy, as she’s looking after her mother, who is seriously ill. So ill in fact, that it’s likely that she has little time left.

So the podcast acts as a distraction, as her and Adam discuss all things paranormal, with Evy sitting on the sceptic side and Adam more open.

He has had an odd email sent to him that makes little sense, but contains ten recordings, that they decide to play on the podcast and discuss.

The more they play them however, featuring a couple having issues when they sleep, Evy starts to notice that there are strange things happening under her own roof, and her mother isn’t excluded.

This is an absorbing directorial debut from Ian Tuason. And although it has a very indie feel, it’s also being put out by none other than A24.

It’s a film that relies on sound more than the usual horror film, based on the audio played throughout the podcast. It does raise a slight gripe, that may well be budget-related more than anything, as in this day and age, it’s more likely that people will shoot video for such an incident, and not just audio, but that’s by the by.

It does mean the audio works harder, though, especially as Evy is the only person – in good health – that is seen in the film, that all takes place in a small house. He mother does feature, but as she can’t speak and is bed-ridden, her input is somewhat minimal. And even her interaction with anyone else is just over the phone, which again is a little odd to Facetime without faces, but still.

And with it set within one house, the Canadian director’s film has the DNA of Paranormal Activity, but an audio version, as things begin to go bump in the night. It’s no surprise to learn then that for his next film he’s been signed up to helm the yet titled Paranormal Activity 8, with this serving as the perfect calling card for it.

And although not a Blumhouse film, it was made with its template, of being made on the cheap and making cash at the box office as it already has, with a budget of only $500,000 and bringing home a healthy $20 million; and as Blumhouse own the Paranormal Activity franchise, it was only another reason to get Tuason as their guy. All in all making it a remarkable achievement considering how little was spent on it.

And because of its clever use of sound, it’s certainly one to recommend at home (when it gets its digital/physical release down the line) with headphones on – which Evy is seen wearing for a lot of the film - for a more immersive experience.

It’s certainly a film that if you watched it with the sound off, would be pretty ineffective, but with a savvy sound department, who manage to turn the creepy all the way to eleven, the result is a slow-burner that by its ending not only manages to turn the audio into a prominent horror tool, but the chills that come with it.

And who knows, it may just persuade a number of folk into not podcasting, which could be a relief to us all.